【正文】 e bamboo will grow better. 4. Because the area of bamboo is being smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. And pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is serious. Then ask students to read the passage paragraph by paragraph again and explain some of the grammar points in it. 1. one of … eg: He is one of my good friends. Sally is one of the girls who study hard. 2. There be … doing… eg: There is a boy crying in the corner. There are many people playing on the beach. 3. less and less eg: Students have less and less time for playing. People have less and less time to relax themselves. 4. need to do sth. eg: We need to do exercises. Bob needs to walk home. Go through the passage by yourself and try to digest the passage, then do Activity 3 on P75 and then after checking the answer, read the sentences together. Word study Ask students to do activity 5on P75 and then ask them to read the short passage repeatedly. Step III Writing (6: P75) Ask students to read the short passage about panda first and then choose another animal in danger and answer the questions in Activity 6 and write a passage about it. Sample answers: 1. The wild Bactrian camel. There are perhaps 950 left in the wild for different reasons. 2. There are perhaps 950 left in the wild. But it still works for people to carry many things. And many people sell its skin for money. So it is in danger now. 3. We need to protect it. 4. We should stop using it as a servant, and give it a nice environment to live. We can also have natural reserves for the camel. And we can do something to tell people the importance of protecting it. Sample version: The wild Bactrian camel lives in Northwest China Mongolia. It is a large camel and the only species in the world with two humps. There are perhaps 950 left in the wild. But it still works for people to carry many things. And many people sell its skin for money. So it is in danger now. We need to protect it. We should stop using it as a servant, and give it a nice environment to live. For example: We can also have natural reserves for the camel. And we can do something to tell people the importance of protecting it. Step IV Homework Ask students to 1. write a passage about an animal in danger in their exercisebooks. 2. finish activities 510 on pages 145146 in Workbook. Period 4 Integrating skills Language goals 語言目標(biāo) 1. Key vocabulary 重點(diǎn)詞匯 design, jewellery, for example, provide, difficulty, clean, pollute 2. Key structures 重點(diǎn)句式 It is + adj. + to do sth. The surprising thing was to … Ability goals 能力目標(biāo) Enable students to use infinitive correctly. Teaching methods 教學(xué)方法 Cooperative learning. Teaching aids 教具準(zhǔn)備 A tape recorder. Teaching procedures and ways 教學(xué)過程與方式 Step I Revision (1, 49: P7678) Review the infinitive and the text. And then do some exercises. Get students to finish the exercises about infinitive and check the answers. Ask students to read the sentences together or in groups after checking. Step II Listening and speaking (2: P76。s largest land animal is the African elephant. An adult elephant grows over 3 meters tall and weighs tons. ? Cheetahs are the world39。s largest bird is the African ostrich. It has powerful legs and can run as fast as 65km/h. ? Lions hunt and kill only when they are hungry. ? Vultures use their keen eyesight to spot a dead animal far below on the ground. ? The world39。t harm humans. ? The chameleon can change its colour very quickly depending on the colour of the thing it39。s best friend, they don39。s protect animals from now on! III. Animal protection Animals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger. Why should people care? Because we need animals. And because once they are gone, there will never be any more. Animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. They are more than just a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animals can create many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the farmers’ stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice. With no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly. Luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animals or plants on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing. 注釋 : 1. feather ，翎毛，箭羽 2. balance 3. hawk ，隼 4. multiple ，繁殖 multiply multiple choice 5. forbid ，不許；阻止，妨礙 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容選擇正確答案 1 Animals are important to us mainly because _____. A. they give us a source of food B. they are beautiful and lovely C. they keep the balance of nature D. they give us a lot of pleasure 2 What has happened to the animals on the earth? A. Hundreds of kinds of animals are gone forever. B. Many kinds of animals have died out. C. About 170 kinds of animals have disappeared forever. D. All kinds of animals are in danger. 3 Why do people kill animals? A. They kill animals for something they need. B. They kill animals to r。s lives. Dogs can be taught to bee the “eyes” for a blind person or ears